Track's New Catalog

[pake]

The new catalog is out and was worth the wait. Like em or not, the quality, style and layout of the new catalog is tops. The photography alone makes the book worth the ten bones they charge.

IMO it looks and feels more like the a gunbuilder's resource book than a sales catalog. That's why they put it together this way I suppose.

pake

[FlintFan]

I'll second that.  Top rate catalog and company.  We are lucky to have them. 

[Blackpowder Barbie]

We keep one on hand here in the shop as a reference guide.  Since they try to make the parts true to size in the photos I can then compare parts and locks to see what might fit where.  It is a very handy catalog to have. 

[smylee grouch]

I have to agree with Barbie, the full size, exact size photos are a real help when trying to figure out your upcoming build. I also think Track was the first to publish barrel weight's in all the sizes to help builders plan their next build. Brownells has since followed Tracks lead and makes their cattalog the same way in some respects.   Smylee

[Ted Kramer]

They're good folks to deal with and they do put out a nice catalog with the actual size photos.

The other day my wife made me sort out a box of old magazines and I came across Track's catalog #7 from the 1980's. Quite a different format than the current issues! Lots fewer parts to select from back then. Oh, the prices have changed a bit too! I spent so long looking through the old catalog that I ran out of time and will have to sort the box another day.

[Tommy Bruce]

Have to agree, I've bought a number of stuff from Track over the years and for the most part have been pretty well satisfied with their service.  I do need a new catalog, and aside from having it on the bench as a reference, it is great eye candy in the evening.

[JTR]

Yeah, you know you're a sick puppy, when after the nightly news and dinner, you sit down in a comfy old chair and pick up Tracks catalog for the evenings reading!

John 

[Habu]

I spent so long looking through the old catalog that I ran out of time and will have to sort the box another day.

This is why I've been working to find new homes for my accumulation of out-dated catalogs and back issues of magazines--you can easily lose several hours getting sidetracked while trying to find something. 

[Ray Nelson]

Ted you had to mention finding one of the old catalogs...That of course compelled me to look in my stashed box labeled in permanent marker "Old ML Catalogs"! I found a 1977-78 catalog plus others and know I have one previous to that with 8x11 sheets listing items that they had for sale. If I remember correctly, Dave & Carol were working out of their basement in their home at that time. Now I will have to find that or go crazy thinking about where I put it for safe keeping.

Dang it anyway...maybe looking thru the old Herters catalogs in the box will stir the memory as to where?

Ray

[Robby]

Herters, my favorite yellow pages!!
Robby

[Don Tripp]

I still have catalogs from the 80s and 90s. I have Dixie's 1979. Track has always been my favorite catalog by far because of the full size pictures but I have to admit that sometimes they would frustrate me. My then six year old daughter told me that they should change their name to "Back Order of the Wolf." Now she is sixteen and I think track is better about the back orders. For awhile though, I used to pick something out of Track's catalog and then call Don Eads to see if he had it.

[woodburner]

Herter's: man that is a name from the past.  Their products advertised
as; genuinnne,the world's best,guarenteed,model perfect. I cannot come up with  all of the superlatives that graced their catalog.  Perhaps they had an english major in their employ. Tim

[Ted Kramer]

Herters had a great store in Glenwood MN back in the day, just an hour's drive for me.

Ray, your catalog/fliers predate my association with Track. First business I did with them was when they were still in the Zanesville(?) Shopping Center complex,  in Brooklyn Center I think,  or thereabouts in a very small store. First time I stopped there I had called Dave and asked where they were and if I could park an 18 wheeler nearby. He gave directions, told me to look for the store front with the oak kegs stacked by the front door and then jokingly (I think!!) said as long as I intended to spend some money there, I could park the truck!

[Bob Roller]

The TOW catalog is the best since they started using full size pictures of nearly everything except stocks. In the area of muzzle loading guns,a lot of the items are or at least were, products of a cottage industry and trying to do business from an empty wagon was and is common. (I don't have it but I can get it). We have a shop here in Huntington WV that seldom ever let's the manager of the gun department spend money on inventory and to the opposite extreme there is another shop that is usually loaded and gets the business.

Bob Roller

[Jerry V Lape]

Herter's "World Famous --"

[Eric Smith]

I've been using Track's online, but after this thread, I just had to have one. I have a couple of Dixie Gunworks catalogs from the 80's. Kept them all these years.

[SPG]

Gentlemen,

I have dealt with TOTW for years, both as a customer and a supplier. Never a complaint and prompt service. In fact, years ago a complete Vincent kit sailed off into a UPS black hole and never reached Cody. I called Track and they sent another, no questions asked. That is good service.

Speaking of catalogs, I still have the 1969 copy of the Dixie catalog that got me sent to the principal's office. My 7th grade math teacher wasn't into flintlocks...

Steve

[skillman]

Years ago there used to be a Herters just north of Lacey. Today there's a Cabela's not a 1/4 mile from there and the Herters is long gone.I do more buisness with Track.

Steve

[timM]

I remember my first Tracks catalog, love at first sight! That outfit is definitely a great resource.  I also remember my first Dixie catalog,.... it had Elmer Keith on the cover.  Between that Dixie catalog and Fess Parker, I was was completely ruined. tim

[Habu]

I still have the 1969 copy of the Dixie catalog that got me sent to the principal's office. My 7th grade math teacher wasn't into flintlocks...

I had to laugh at that, my 8th grade math teacher borrowed mine.  You should have waited just one more year . . .   

[Dale Campbell]

My 7th grade shop teacher worked on one in class. My 7th grade science teacher shot underhammers. My 7th grade homeroom teacher/8th grade English teacher was a flint shooter. My 7th grade reading teacher got into this stuff the same time I did. My 9th grade science teacher brought in his flinter and buckskins annually for the history class.  All these were in the middle school.  These guys got me started with a stock blank and Dixie barrel for $20, and directions to Dixie to get McCrory's book and the $30 Harper's Ferry pistol lock. I still have the book (and no I will not post the rifle for all to see). When I screwed up the breech plug (twisted off the tang), the 9th grade shop teacher had me bring in the barrel and turned me loose in the shop with a drill and large easy out.

Three of these guys ended up carting me all over the north east to shoots and reenactments until I graduated high school. I see some of them around town yet.  I owe them a lot.